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Hi Steve,
I watch the SN podcast every week, and for a long time have been looking at your bookshelf behind you and trying to make it all out.
Is there any chance you could provide a high res, in focus image of this? I am sure there are a lot of other people would like to "snoop" around there as well.
The main point of interest would be the bit we never see obscured by your body!
Hope this does not freak you out too much :)
 
I know for the longest time he had a Dido CD there, and I know he has blinken lights, but that's as far as I have taken it... I'm too distracted by his sexy mug (We have similar "hair" but I have a full beard. :D )
 
I know Steve has a lot on right now with more & more people testing, & new problems arising, so he probably wont have the time to do this.
But, if you get a quite spot Steve, post it, & maybe we could make into a competition to name all the items there!
 
It might be more probable that he's broadcasting from the secondary location where increasingly more of his time has been spent, seemingly, since he established a place there with networked access to the formerly primary location. Additionally, there have been times when the networked access has been spotty from the primary location, and there's always the garbage truck on Tuesdays and sometimes other machinery outdoors. Broadcasting from the secondary location also removes the 'tedious' transit times between the two places for SN episodes that don't require hardware/etc. that is only present at the primary location. The secondary location might even become the primary location sooner or later. He has equipment monitoring his server/etc. remotely, so his presence isn't necessarily always required at the former #1 location.

Observant people will notice unchanging backgrounds, of course, but people who just listen will only experience cleaner broadcasts (without the garbage truck, etc.), if a more permanent move for broadcasts is pending.

This message has been pure speculation and might not represent current or future events. The infrastructure and network probably makes such a scenario possible, but whether it is or may become reality is unknown to me.

(The absence of movement in the typically changing lights in the background on the mini-PDPs is rather obvious, isn't it?) 😲
 
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Well, halfway through this weeks SN 805 he resets his blinking lights, & comments about looking around other peoples backgrounds! So I am not the only one doing this! Come on Steve, give us the hi res photo I asked for. I was only joking about your Bitcoin USB stick, I know you would not keep it on the back shelves. :cool: